Matthew Rauch

Matthew Rauch

Matthew Rauch has performed in five plays on Broadway - The Great Society, Junk, The Merchant of Venice, Prelude to a Kiss, and Proposals - and 13 off-Broadway plays, including the title role in Tartuffe for Moliére in the Park, A Particle of Dread and Book of Days at the Signature Theatre, Kin at Playwrights Horizons, The Winters Tale and The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare in the Park, Still Life at MCC, and three Red Bull productions - The Revenger’s Tragedy, Edward the Second, and The Duchess of Malfi, for which he received the Callaway Award.

Regionally, he has played title roles in Richard the Third, Henry V and Macbeth, for which he won the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Actor, and worked at over a dozen theaters, including The Shakespeare Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Williamstown, Long Wharf, the Kennedy Center, the Cincinnati Playhouse, and the Repertory Theater of St Louis.

Film credits include "The Wolf of Wall Street," "Labor Day," "The Tale," "Frankenfish," "Phil Spector," and "Premium Rush." On television/streaming, he played Clay Burton on all four seasons of Cinemax/HBO’s cult hit "Banshee," was a series regular on Netflix’s "Partner Track," has had recurring roles on "The Terminal List," "Chicago PD," "SVU," "Chambers," "Blue Bloods," "Betty," "NCIS New Orleans," "Shades of Blue" and "Treme," and appeared on "Seven Seconds," "New Amsterdam," "Bull," "The Good Wife," "The Blacklist," and "Law and Order," among many others.

He wrote four - and directed two - episodes of "Banshee: Origins" for Cinemax/HBO, and is the author of a number of screenplays and pilots that have been in various stages of development hell. Matthew trained at the ART Institute at Harvard, is a graduate of Princeton University, and is a proud member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA, and the WGA.